Table 3. Assumption checking and diagnostic testing functionality from NMA R packages gemtc, pcnetmeta and netmeta.

Tasks	Features	gemtc	pcnetmeta	Netmeta
Assessing Heterogeneity	Visual inspection - forest plot	✓	✗	✓
	Pairwise statistics	✓	✗	✓
	Global statistics	✓	✗	✓
Assessing Inconsistency	Visual inspection - forest plot of direct vs. indirect	✓	✗	✗
	Visual inspection – heat map	✗	✗	✓ (net heat plot)
	Consistency statistics	✓	✗	✓
	Back-calculation	✓	✗	✗
	Node-split/decomposition	✓	✗	✓
Goodness of model fit	Deviance information criterion (DIC)	✓	✓	NA
	Akaike information criterion (AIC)	NA	NA	✗